Any keyword

awAW:

Searches for the words “peters “and “gerlach” in any indexed field.

aw: peters gerlalch

Any phrase

aphAPH:

This index is designed to retrieve names more accurately than by name keyword.

Examples: “Prince,”  “Princeton University,” “Ken Follett,” “Follett, Ken,” “Follett, K,”

Note: it is important to include the comma at the end to signify truncation

Enter personal names as surname, followed by comma, followed by initial or forenames.

na: shakespeare, william

ISBN

bn:

bn: 9780192631695

Country of publication

cnp:

Example combining name keyword “mignon” and country of publication “fr” (France)  (Note: use ISO 3166-1 two character codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 )

cnp: fr & nw: mignon

Decade of publication

dcp:

Example combining date of publication between 1970 and 1989 and name word “mignon”

dcp: 197 {range} 198 & nw: mignon

Dates of identity

dtiDTA:

Example combining name keyword and birth date (note only publicly available dates are displayed)

Instrument or Voice

iop:

See list of codes in ISNI Data element Values.doc

iop:  bb (Retrieves all identities coded as trumpet players)dti: 188? & nw: huxley

Insert date

ins:

Example combing insert date “2011-10-12” and source code “AMS”

ins: 20111012 & cn: ams?

Language of identity

lniLNI:

Example search combining title keyword “sand” and language of identity “fre”  (Note use ISO 639- 2, three character code http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2)

lni: fre & tw: sand

Other resource identifier

LSN:

Example search for DOI “doi 101001 archderm1418985”

LSN:  doi 101001 archderm1418985

Note keyword

ntNT:

Example search for a note containing the word “possible”

nt: possible

Publisher keyword

pwPW:

Example search for a publisher containing the word “macmillan” but not the title keyword “encyclopedia”

pw: macmillan NOT tw: encyclopedia

Standard identifier

siSI:

Collective index for ISBN, ISSN and contributor identifiers  Example.

Example: searching for ISBN 9780192631695

si: 9780192631695

isn: 0000 0001 1879 5962

The search works with or without spaces in the number.

Possible values: A (assigned), P (provisional), S (suspect)

Record source

srcSRC:

This index is constructed with the number of sources followed by the source codes.

Example search for all unassigned records for source AMS (note that this string includes spaces so must be surrounded by a double quotation)with PCC as the only source:

src: 1 AMS  (Alternative: cn: ams? & st: p)

Example browse of the Record Source index

11?viaf? will show counts of records and sources where VIAF and other sources exist on the same record

PCC

Example search for all records with PCC as one of multiple sources (the digits do not represent eleven but "more than one"):

src: 11? PCC

Title keyword

TW

Title keyword

tw:

Example search combining name keyword “peters” and title keyword “sand”

nw: peters & tw: sand

Contributor identifier

cn:

Example searching for the VIAF identifier  pica.cn+%3D+"VIAF 77823260"

cn: viaf 77823260

Example search for all assigned records for source AMS

cn: ams? & st: a

Pica production number

ppnPPN:

Example search for a record by PPN 067467237 (no ISNI assigned yet)

ppn:  067467237

Similarity

sim:

This index enables you to find possible matches.

This example enables you to find all ALCS records that have a possible match:

sim: alcs? p?

ORCID

ORCID

ORCID

Orcid:

This index enables you to find ORCIDs that have been added by researchers using the ISNI ORCID link

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